Kanzenshuu

We cover anything and everything Dragon Ball in hopes of enlightening... and a little bit of entertaining. Hosted every week by the Kanzenshuu staff and regular special guests from the professional and fandom communities. Your first, best, last, and only Dragon Ball podcast!

Episode #0408! Mike, Heath, and Ajay discuss fake materials constructed to add fuel to the fire of the "Dragon Ball Super" troubled production narrative. How did these drawings fit so well into what we already knew, and what should have been some of the warning signs along the way? A quick recap of news from across the globe and a few website project teases wrap up the episode!

What an interesting episode. I'm constantly amazed at the lengths people will go to, just for... what? Attention? Stuff like this always reminds me of the playground back in elementary school... "I heard Pan goes SSJ in Japan" "my brother showed me a picture of SSJ5 Goku, but it's in Japan only."

Hearing Ajay was a treat! I don't know what I was expecting, but matching a voice to text satisfied some sort of itch I didn't know I had.

I am in harmonious concert with Lunaar: are schemes like this worth it? Is the attention that worthwhile? But then the Dragon Ball rumor mill has never done much for me so I suppose I am not in the target audience.

Now all of this talk of lost magic makes me a mite sad. It is a certain fate when you document things as thoroughly as the Kanzenshuu quartet do (sorry Heath!), but Kanzenshuu's level of documentation shouldn't doom to you watch Dragon Ball as a finished collaborative project rather than a piece of entertainment all by itself!

With this episode, I am finally caught up with the podcast! I think I decided to start from episode 1 back around this past Christmas, after listening to the latest podcast episodes on-and-off since about 2010. In my time listening (both years past and these last 9-or-so months going through its history), the podcast has gotten me through schoolwork, housework, lawn work, real-adult-being-employed work, and the long drives between my home and college. I've laughed, I... don't think I've cried (I've at least been somber when hearing of someone's passing), and I've learned so much about a series that is very dear to my heart. I listened as two fansites dedicated to Dragon Ball went from rivals to partners-in-crime to basically being a single website to actually being a single website. I heard the tale of a Julian, who traveled to and from the land where our favorite series originates, from his own mouth. I [some synonym for listen here] as Dragon Ball went from a finished thing to having all new installments, ready for a new generation of fans. It was quite a lot to go through in less than a year, but here I am, now with the knowledge of what came before. To Mike, Meri, Julian, Heath, Jake, and all the other guests and regulars on this podcast: it's been a great ride so far, and I hope to hear many more years of greatness!

As for this particular episode: I now know what Ajay sounds like, so that's cool. It's always fun to have a new voice on the show, and Ajay fit right in like he'd been doing it for years. This whole thing of French artists masquerading as Dragon Ball producers on Twitter is just... odd. I guess it's that people love bringing attention to themselves, so some go about it in strange ways.